I'm pretty new to AWS and EC2 but I want to run instances with a user script after it's booted from another instance. I have installed ec2 tools and ran the command as it's explained in various examples like here http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/ec2-userdata and Eric Hammond's tutorials. however when I actually use the command:
"ec2-run-instances --key my-key --user-data-file myscript my-ami"
it only runs the new instance but doesn't execute the script
myscript contains:
#!/bin/bash
echo "hello" > ~/output.txt